neritz:I see Best Korea has learned how to negotiate like Republicans.

^ This. "Oh you have a majority of support and the means to carry it out? Well go ahead, we won't stop you." ...days later. "Well we opposed you again and prevented anything meaningful from happening, didn't we? Well just make sure to listen to us and make sure things go our way next time. But we won't do this again. We promise!"

Should have thought about that before threatening to nuke the US bucko. I don't see there being a whole lot of political will behind extending them any kind of olive branch in teh form of reduced/removed sanctions.

They were warned ahead of their nuke test what the consequences would be, they did it anyways, now they can lay in the bed they made.

I feel sorry for the average N. Korean starving and living in fear, but that is 100% the fault of their leadership and their policies, and there is no good way to provide the aid directly to the people...I am genuinely curious about the scale and condition of their "work camps", if verifiable photos came out showing conditions similar to WWII Nazi concentration camps, would that justify intervention by the global community? I know nothing can be done without China and Russia signing off, but even they have to have their limits.

/Fark Fatty Kim, I hope he reads every insult on the internet and cries himself to sleep every night. He had the best chance in a generation to really steer N. Korea in a new direction and instead he acts like a petulant child.

hasty ambush:neritz: I see Best Korea has learned how to negotiate like Republicans.

They have more in common with progressives "The [North] Korean people are friends to all progressive minded people in the world," and "the famine in the 1990s, which experts believe killed up to 2.4 million North Koreans, was one example of good governance on the peninsula"

Quality trolling there I see. Quoting the Red Youth as if they represent progressives is like quoting Aryan Nation as if they represent Conservatives.

neritz:I see Best Korea has learned how to negotiate like Republicans.

Except it works. The gun control backround check bill is finished. They got 99% of the bush tax cuts preserved forever. After Obamacare turns out the be the "trainwreck" that even democrats are distancing themselves from; it will get even worse.

nekom:He's got to realize that an attack on the south would be suicidal, otherwise why wouldn't he have done that by now?

L'il Kim is just trying to solidify his own leadership in Best Korea. Nobody knew him before he took power, and he needs to ratchet up the crazy if he wants to be able to be compared to his dad and (more importantly) his grandfather. It's all being done for domestic purposes.

Also, Best Korea is a 3rd world country. They could probably fire one single salvo, and while it would be destructive, they would instantly be invaded and the leadership annihilated.

And like any totalitarian regime, they need their army to keep their OWN people in line. Most of North Koreas guns point INWARD, at their own citizens, because that's the only way they can keep people in line, while simultaneously starving their own population and forcing them to live their lives in a kind of 19th century hellhole.

L'il Kim wants what every sad, pathetic dictator wants. To consolidate his own power on his people.

MindStalker:hasty ambush: neritz: I see Best Korea has learned how to negotiate like Republicans.

They have more in common with progressives "The [North] Korean people are friends to all progressive minded people in the world," and "the famine in the 1990s, which experts believe killed up to 2.4 million North Koreans, was one example of good governance on the peninsula"

Quality trolling there I see. Quoting the Red Youth as if they represent progressives is like quoting Aryan Nation as if they represent Conservatives.

The reality is that your all partisan hacks. North Korea doesn't have anything in common with either party.

bluefox3681:neritz: I see Best Korea has learned how to negotiate like Republicans.

Except it works. The gun control backround check bill is finished. They got 99% of the bush tax cuts preserved forever. After Obamacare turns out the be the "trainwreck" that even democrats are distancing themselves from; it will get even worse.

Republicans are winning.

It's the sort of thing that happens when you fight reality.

/note: not "when you fight Republicans," but "when you fight reality."//Obama proved Republicans can be defeated, and even had a filibuster proof majority in Congress and a Supreme Court appointment with mandate///but reality doesn't care what the courts say, how the people vote, or even whether you can prove it's a "racist misogynist religious ideological construct that needs to be legislated away and replaced with a new reality"

"If the United States and the puppet South have the slightest desire to avoid the sledge-hammer blow of our army and the people ... and truly wish dialogue and negotiations, they must make the resolute decision," it said.

PanicMan:"If the United States and the puppet South have the slightest desire to avoid the sledge-hammer blow of our army and the people ... and truly wish dialogue and negotiations, they must make the resolute decision," it said.